Tales from our Tasmanian smallholding in the foothills alongside Wellington Park. We moved here in 2004 from the UK and lived through four winters in a damp caravan whilst building our house, bringing up our young son and developing our unruly plot.

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Aug - Dec 2014

A few photos from Bronte's phone spanning the past three and a half months.

Amazing 3D picture created on the concrete on the Hobart waterfront

Luke has been playing the kids' version of T20 blast on Friday nights and has recently started playing for the Huonville Bulls' under-12s team. This is him kitted up for his batting debut (somewhat nervous).

Fish-farms on the Derwent, viewed from our Peppermint Bay cruise. The 'gourmetfarmer' Matthew Evans, who lives locally in Cygnet, recently did a documentary onfish caught and eaten in Tassie. He concluded that even if the pollution problem canbe overcome with fish-farming, the problem remains that fish have to be caught to feedfish. Although the conversion rate is very good - about 1kg of feed to produce 1.5kgof salmon - it remains a problem for me.

Giant koala seen by Bronte on his way to Naracoorte for anuncle's funeral

New Brooke Street Pier having been towed into position on the Hobartwaterfront. There is still a lot of construction underway.